Last decade was also hottest yet in 150 years of measurements, say scientists The year 2019 was the second hottest on record for the planet’s surface, according to latest research. The analyses reveal the scale of the climate crisis: both the past five years and the past decade are the hottest in 150 years. The
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15 January 2020
Climate emergency: 2019 was second hottest year on record
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15 January 2020
Climate Change: A Tale of Weather Extremes with Mixed Fortunes for Zambia
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Planeta Hatuleke, a small scale farmer of Pemba District in Southern Zambia, stands in a maize field. This year, she hopes that she will not be one of the country’s 2.3 million food insecure people thanks to the climate smart agriculture techniques she implemented while planting her crop in November. Courtesy: Friday Phiri By Friday
15 January 2020
Is Iraq Now a Virtual “US-Occupied Territory”?
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A U.S. soldier stands watch at the Kindi IDP Resettlement Center near Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 16, 2009. Credit: U.S. Navy Photo By Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Jan 15 2020 (IPS) Pat Buchanan, a senior advisor to three US Presidents and twice candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, once infamously described the United States Congress as “Israeli-occupied
15 January 2020
BlackRock now needs to use its voting clout to fuel sustainable investing
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It’s good news the world’s largest asset manager aims to change how it invests but actions will speak louder than words BlackRock’s conversion to sustainable investing comes late in the day and may have been motivated, in part, by founder and chief executive Larry Fink’s fear that the “greenwasher” label would stick. Activists were banging
15 January 2020
Disinformation on Australian bushfires should not be spread by ministers | Letter
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A group of scientists respond after UK government minister Heather Wheeler stated that it had been ‘widely reported on social media that 75% of the fires were started by arsonists’ We write as scientists alarmed that a minister has ignored scientific evidence, relying instead on grossly misleading social media sources. In the House of Commons
14 January 2020
Bushfires Hasten the Death Knell of many Australian Native Animals and Plants
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Kangaroos in Bawley Point on the south coast of New South Wales. Credit: Neena Bhandari/IPS By Neena BhandariSYDNEY, Australia, Jan 14 2020 (IPS) The chatter of cockatoos and lorikeets has given way to an eerie silence in smoke enveloped charred landscapes across south-eastern Australia. The unrelenting bushfires have driven many native animal and plant species
14 January 2020
Cybersecurity Threats Call for a Global Response
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Credit: International Telecommunication Union (ITU) By David LiptonWASHINGTON DC, Jan 14 2020 (IPS) Last March, Operation Taiex led to the arrest of the gang leader behind the Carbanak and Cobalt malware attacks on over 100 financial institutions worldwide. This law enforcement operation included the Spanish national police, Europol, FBI, the Romanian, Moldovan, Belarusian, and Taiwanese
14 January 2020
The Guardian view on policing protest: not a job for counter-terrorism | Editorial
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Bracketing Extinction Rebellion with neo-Nazis is grotesque. A review of Prevent must now take place Surprise will have been many people’s understandable reaction to learning that Extinction Rebellion, the environmentalist network, was listed by British counter-terrorism police alongside violent neo-Nazi and Islamist groups in a guide to “extremist ideologies”. The document, issued to schools, included
14 January 2020
Vanguard refuses to sign up to climate crisis commitment
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US asset manager that built up fossil fuel portfolio fails to join rivals in engaging with climate Vanguard, the world’s second largest asset manager, has refused to sign up to a group of major investors demanding that polluters respond to the climate crisis, despite its rival BlackRock relenting to pressure to do so. The US
13 January 2020
Australia’s Wildfires Part of a Vicious Cycle of Food & Fire
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A fire in the East Gippsland region of Victoria, December 30, 2019. Photo by Ned Dawson for Victoria State Government. By John Leary and Lindsay CobbSILVER SPRINGS, Maryland, Jan 13 2020 (IPS) “Unprecedented.” “Hell on Earth.” “Catastrophic.” In Australia, these terms are being used to describe 17.9 million acres of burned land so far. While